List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Danny van Poppel is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux.

Tessa Schram is a Dutch actress and director. She is the daughter of film producer and director Dave Schram and Maria Peters. While she is the sister of an actor Quinten Schram.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. Van der Waals started his career as a school teacher. He became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when in 1877 the old Athenaeum was upgraded to Municipal University. Van der Waals won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

Wilhelm Friedrich "Gaius" de Gaay Fortman was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist.

George Arnold Escher was a Dutch civil engineer and a foreign advisor to the Japanese government during the Meiji period.

Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age, being followed by Jan van Huysum, who took flower painting to another degree of popularity.

Free Imperial Knight Andries de Graeff was a very powerful member of the Amsterdam branch of the De Graeff - family during the Dutch Golden Age. He became a mayor of Amsterdam and a powerful Amsterdam regent after the death of his older brother Cornelis de Graeff. Like him and their father Jacob Dircksz de Graeff he opposed the house of Orange. In the mid-17th century he controlled the finances and politics.